The Soviet Union, why didn't we punish them?

Glantz also covers it in one of his books on August Storm...
He also wrote an article about it in the Quarterly Journal of Military History.
"The Soviet Invasion of Japan," Quarterly Journal of Military History, vol. 7, no. 3, Spring 1995, pp. 96–97
Last time I looked though, the QJMH article could not be found online.

Glantz also covers it in one of his books on August Storm...
He also wrote an article about it in the Quarterly Journal of Military History.
"The Soviet Invasion of Japan," Quarterly Journal of Military History, vol. 7, no. 3, Spring 1995, pp. 96–97
Last time I looked though, the QJMH article could not be found online.

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Got a page number for August Storm? (Yeah, this is a lying down day for me.)

A foxhole is a very good place to evaluate the value of religion. If you're not an atheist when you jump in you should be when you climb out. IF you climb out.

Everyone focuses on the Nazis and yes they are evil, but the Soviet Union killed more than them before the war ever started and continued killing during and after.

Why did our president refuse to see what others did? Why did we take some Generals recommendations at the time and finish the job? We were there, our men, our equipment. finish it..Looking for thoughts, facts...etc

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Justice is a compromise between morality and expediency.

Politics. The British and American public had bought the Soviet Union as a heroic wartime ally. It took three years of peacetime politics for policies to change.

Practicality. Who was going to arrest the perpetrators? You and whose army? At what cost to the world?

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